Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Nagrow again, where our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, a heartfelt thank you to all the followers internationally.

It's our true pleasure to be able to be a part of your lives and on your journey with mental health.

And, you know, we're two people, although I'm doing most of the talk,

we're two people just trying to make a difference in a world that can be very confusing,

can be very ambivalent, a feel that is not always linear. It's very multifaceted

as individuals are multifaceted, and I'm very grateful to all the people who have reached out

in placing confidence in our ability to give

you some guidance. Again, we're not treating everyone, but we're just here to educate and to guide.

Um, so today's topic, I'm going to switch gears from being more, uh, I've done a lot of the,

you know, disorders lately and clinical. Um, but I want to talk lot of the disorders lately and clinical.

But I want to talk today about the whole concept of optimism.

And optimism is something which is missing a lot in our field.

It's Julie's smashing mint into our drinks of water.

Martin Seligman did the work on learned helplessness, and that's been demonstrated and repeated over and over and over again.

So learn helplessness is basically no matter what I do, why bother?

And you see this a lot in the depressive disorders, especially when people espouse symptoms

of hopelessness.

And that's a scary symptom because hopelessness is a predictor of the possibility for suicidal ideations or suicide attempt.

Optimism is something that I think doesn't really come across. I never took a class on optimism.

I don't think we were ever trained in optimism, but it's something that I find, and I'm taking this from the perspective of,

I've mentioned this for you guys who follow the program.

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